Disney to shutter Disney Adventures kids' magazine

The tricky and rather anemic kids' periodical sector is to lose one of its titles -- Disney Adventures is being discontinued, effective with its November issue, according to a story in MediaWeek. The digest-sized magazine for 6 to 14 year olds, had 1.2 million paid circulation. Most of its circulation was by subscription, but it was also a perennial on the checkout racks since its founding in

Yes and Know science mags win educational publishing awards

YES and KNOW magazines have each brought home distinguished achievement awards from the Washington D.C.-based Association of Educational Publishers. Both titles are published by Peter Piper Publishing Inc. of Victoria, B.C.YES a science magazine for youths, 9 to 14, won in the Visual Story category for Howie Woo's "Cunning Running" piece about orienteering which appeared in the Sep/Oct 2006